This week I had to go somewhere by train and had to wait at one of the stations for about fifteen minutes. Cold!!! Now I'm coughing and sneezing all day. And I need all my warm socks to prevent getting cold feet.

I've finished reading another book. When I continue in this speed, I'll finish those 52 books in time. Now I read 'The American girl' by the Finnish author Monika Fagerholm. I'd started reading it before, but had trouble getting into the story. It still was hard, but now I've read it all.

It's quite a fascinating book. It tells the story of two girls, who grow up in a village on a lake. Both girls had problematic years before they got to know each other. They become close friends and tell each other about their lives. It's never clear how much of these stories is truth and how much is fantasy. Again and again the same stories are told, with a little less fantasy each time and a little more of the truth (as it appears later) And in the mean time life goes on.It must have been quite a job to translate this book from Swedish, the author is a member of a Swedish speaking minority in Finland, but the translator has succeeded very well, in my opinion. But the book is very slow to my taste and very thick. I don't think I'm going to read part 2. But never say never.